Pakistan conducted a second missile test and India ordered civil defense drills in an escalating stand-off over contested Kashmir that the UN said on Monday has brought the two nations to the brink of war.

Pakistan carried out a second missile test in three days on Monday after saying it was preparing for an incursion by India, as Moody's warned that the standoff over violence in Kashmir could set back Islamabad's economic reforms.

India and Pakistan are scrambling resources both military and diplomatic to respond to a crisis triggered by a massacre in Indian-controlled Kashmir that has heightened fears of a conflict between the